Lysander

[ US /ˌɫaɪˈsændɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC)
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How To Use Lysander In A Sentence

  • Lysander : What a pretty beauty ! Helena, I would through fire for your sweet sake.
  • Once, after they were tacked up, and out in the ring, trotting and cantering around, Lysander came up to watch them.
  • The Spartans finally won through Lysander's abilities as a general and his friendship with Cyrus, the son of the Persian King, who financed the Spartan navy more regularly and fully than it had been.
  • Lysander, her hero, is a lovable thicko who isn't even terribly proficient in bed.
  • He had found the Lysander only the previous night, on a fighter field at Beda Fomm, south of Benghazi.
  • Lysander leaned against the desk and began twining a piece of hair around his finger, looking up at the student council president in that seductive manner that brought so many people to his bed.
  • Alcibiades, after a severe blockade (408 B.C.), gained possession of the city through the treachery of the Athenian party; in 405 B.C. it was retaken by Lysander and placed under a Spartan harmost. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • Sparta, Lysander, taking into account the possibility of speedily reducing the party in Piraeus by blockading them by land and sea, and so cutting them off from all supplies, supported the application, and negotiated the loan of one hundred talents115 to his clients, backed by the appointment of himself as harmost on land, and of his brother, Hellenica
  • An arrow struck Lysander's helmet but didn't pierce its metal skin, and he fell unconscious from the blow.
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